McVEY, Walter Lewis, Jr., a Representative from Kansas; born in Independence, Montgomery
County, Kans., February 19, 1922; educated in the public schools and graduated
from high school in 1940; attended Independence Junior College for two years;
University of Kansas, A.B., 1947 and J.D., 1948; admitted to the bar and
commenced the practice of law in Independence, Kans.; during World War II
served in the Army Air Corps, 1943-1946, and was discharged as a staff
sergeant; member of the State house of representatives, 1949-1952; judge of the
city court, Independence, Kans., 1952-1956; member of the State senate,
1957-1960; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for the
Eighty-third Congress in 1952; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh
Congress (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1963); unsuccessful for renomination in
1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress; management consultant, Washington, D.C.,
1963-1964; executive director, Fulton County, Ga., Republicans, June
1964-September 1965; staff counsel, Georgia Municipal Association, November
1965-April 1966; admitted to the Georgia bar in 1965 and commenced the practice
of law in Atlanta; professor of political science, Georgia State University,
Atlanta, Ga., 1968-1980; professor, Mercer University, Atlanta, Ga., 1971-1973;
evening dean, DeKalb College (later Georgia Perimeter College), North Dunwoody,
Ga., 1968-2001; died on September 10, 2014, in Olathe, Kans.